Ludovico Pozzoserrato
approximately 1550-approximately 1604
Susanna and the Elders in an Arbor: Apocrypha, Susanna 12-64
7 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches (190 x 270 mm)
Pen and brown ink on paper.
1983.22
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: Sun, with face and fifteen rays. Watermark, beta radiograph. star, rays, face. 144863wm_1983_22_WM_beta.jpg
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in brown ink, at lower corner, "... a Veneziana"; at upper left corner, in opposite direction, in a humanist hand, in dark brown ink", ·ÿsereman / 6 [?]) Z. -". On verso, at upper left corner, lettered crudely, in black chalk, "TALES D Asia / Solone D Salomino / CHILON D Lacedimonia / PHITACO D Asia Mitelena / Bias Prieneo / CLEOBOLO D GARIA / PERIANDRO D Corinth."; at right, below this, probably in the artist's hand, in brown ink, "Filosepho Tales Di Asia / Solone Di Salamino / CHilons Di Lacedimoia / PHitaco Di Asia Mitel ... / Bias Prieneo / CLEobobo Di GREcia / Periandro Di Corinth / questo fūrno li 7. sani / in Grecia"; to the left of this, in the first hand (?), in black chalk, "100 / D ... ca.e" (Ducate?).
Associated names
Konstantinoff, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 310.
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 60, no. 103, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 60, no. 103, repr.
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Century Drawings
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